Yeah, I've seen your page on the first time, when I said it was a great hack you've done there.

Well, like I just commented with you there (again), what I would try to do is mix up many hacks into my likening. I have no doubt it's possible to do it in squarespace, with relatively little code and effort. And if I see enough people interested in this eventually I could even build a tutorial like the other specialists like to do... But not for now.

Here's the steps I'd go to make it, using these as references:

Muno's solution sure looks great, but I'm not sure it's better to host videos on squarespace. I doubt there's any place better than youtube (unless you're doing porn, and I mean it). In any case, there's something to learn from there.

The goal would be to replace the orange video buttons on www.generation-y.ch with a solution like on "Introducing Squarespace Seven" (http://www.squarespace.com/seven) which plays the videos in full screen. The videos would be hosted on Vimeo Pro.

I've modified my Terms of Work slightly, and now I require every new customer to understand how the business will work before I begin. This is what's new and relevant:

After the payment I'll analyze the project deeper and properly. For most new projects (which are most of the requests I get) I have no way to analyze without actually doing part of it, or all of it. I may require more hours to get everything you need done. We can then agree on me doing less, you paying more, or we getting you a full refund. For any project that's just implementing code that already exists, such as the ones I've made myself (do check my github), it might cost you less than U$321 down to a low of U$123...

It might cost you nothing as well, you can just grab the code from there and implement it yourself! I offer them for free! If I get enough requests, eventually I may even start doing tutorials on how to implement a few things.

If you're okay, I'll begin working today.

And since I expect this to be no issue to you, already got you two questions:

First, do you prefer me to work straight on your squarespace or should I just give you the code needed and you apply it yourself? If it's the first, I'll need admin access.

Then, I can easily picture how to do this for the first section, with only 1 button and good height size. The current video would play on its background, dimmed out by some white overlapping transparency.

But the second section gets too big and the video wouldn't fit well. So we either need to crop it, repeat it or stretch it. I'd probably go for cropping, how about you?

I'm also not sure what you expect to see under brandpower, which have 2 buttons side by side. Do you want both bg videos simultaneously, splitted in half screen? I would prefer choosing one to show on the background, even if it's a 3rd one which would mix up both.

I guess we currently don’t have the same understanding of the requirements. Or perhaps I have understood you wrong. There is no need to play a video in the background. It’s just the implementation of a «video play button» in order to be able to play embedded videos fullscreen.

Please find enclosed a pdf-file where I have briefly outlined the "as-is" and "to-be" solution. If you have additional questions don’t hesitate to contact me.

By removing the vimeo controls (easier with a pro account which I don't have), because making this the same way SS7 video work ended up screwing up a bit with vimeo controls, which I couldn't touch enough to keep it there.

Or maybe there's a code-hackish way to remove the thumbnail when loading - other than, you know, using a custom dark image hack, which you'd probably think about.

Yeah. I'll work on removing the thumbnail, but since it's not the same as the button you could hack it away using a black image... Or maybe, it just happened to me, simply removing the thumbnail might work.

I'm not at my home office right now so I can't try it. But I'll let you know about this soon enough.

There's another caveat there, for your test page. Since the video gallery solution uses the exact same video, the jqueryLightbox will hide it once it works. And since it's not working, that's where its secret lies... You need to add a gallery anywhere in the page, exactly like that one you just did, for the jqueryLightbox link to use it (and hide it). Maybe you already knew that, this is just a test page after all. But it will look a bit broken when it works.